You can adjust the home screen of your iPhone or iPad even more to your own taste since iOS 18 and iPados 18. This way you can place your apps and widgets on any free place on the home screen. With the help of a smart trick you can quickly add widgets and change the size.
Apple has built in several options to add widgets of apps to the home screen. This way you can see at a glance whether an app has widgets and you can add them immediately. As a result, it is no longer necessary to search in the list of available widgets.
Quickly add widgets to the home screen
- Put your finger on an app for a few moments
- A pop-up menu appears with extra options
- Tap a widget option (if available)
If the selected application has support for Widgets, you will immediately see examples of formats in the context menu. This way it can show a small, medium or large widget. On the iPad there is even an extra large format available. Only the formats that the app supports are shown.
Customize format of Widgets
With the help of the above steps it is also possible to change the size of an existing widget. Place your finger on a widget for a few moments until the pop-up menu appears. Then you will see a pop-up menu with different editing options for the widget, including adjusting the format.